Love for Life

Call of 20 Scientists - Dangers of Cell Phones from France - Analysis, dangers of cell phones
Call of 20 Scientists - Dangers of Cell Phones from France

See PDF File: Dangers of Cell Phone - Call of 20 Scientists
PDF File - Dangers of Cell Phone - Call of 20 Scientists

►France : Dangers of Cell Phones
CALL OF 20 SCIENTISTS - JUNE 15, 2008

In the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (Le JDD) http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/AppelCallFrance.php , 20 international scientists, most of them cancer specialists, launch a call against the dangers of cell phones.

According to the weekly magazine, "the scientists agree on two things: there is no formal evidence of the harmful effects of cell phones, but a risk exists that it may lead to the development of cancers in case of long-term exposure"

Under the coordination of David Servan-Schreiber, professor of psychiatry at the university of Pittsburgh and known for the success of its book "To heal" ("Guérir") (2003), the call lists ten major recommendations."

"A beam of worrying scientific evidence" :

First of them: one should not authorize children under the age of 12 to use a cell phone [video] except in case of emergency.

See Video: http://videos.next-up.org/MicrowavesPenetration/IrradiationChildrenBrain...

The magazine recalls that 18% of schoolboys and 65% of teenagers above 12 have a cell phone. The scientists also advise users of all ages to maintain their cell phone over one meter away from the body when calling by using the loudspeaker mode, a hands free kit or an auricle. Also to avoid as much as possible carrying a mobile phone on oneself, even on quiet mode. And also to avoid using it in places such as the subway, the bus or the train where you expose passively to the electromagnetic field of your device.

Little girl with a Mobile Phone, against his skull, use a proven risks.

The call also recommends to communicate rather by SMS, because that limits the exposure duration and the proximity of the device, etc.

According to the scientists, these are measures of precaution which must be taken until final data is made available. "We are today in the same situation as fifty years ago for asbestos and tobacco. Either nothing is done, and one accepts a risk, or one admits there is a beam of worrying scientific arguments”, explains Thierry Bouillet, cancer specialist at the hospital Avicenne of Bobigny (France) and signatory of the call.

Among the main other signatories also appear Dr. Bernard Asselain, chief of the cancer biostatistics service at Institute Curie, Pr Free Berrino, director of the department of preventive and predictive medicine at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan (Italy), Jacques Marilleau, engineer, former physicist at the Administration of Atomic Energy and at National Center for Scientific Research in Orsay (France), or Joel de Rosnay, science doctor (France).

Petition Click Here: http://petition.next-up.org/sign-petition-uk.html

The petition
Protect Yourself from Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) hazards by supporting the BioInitiative Report recommendations on EMR exposure limits.
The EMR Policy Institute is putting forward this petition to endorse the recommendations of The BioInitiative Working Group Report. We are seeking support from other organizations whose missions call for responsible public health policy for children, for workers and for the general public both where they work and where they reside. We are also seeking the endorsement of individuals to call for tougher EMR safety policy globally as spelled out in the report: BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF).

Following the Petition language is the statement of support for The BioInitiative Report that was issued on September 17, 2007, by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). It summarizes the importance of the BioInitiative Report and the EMR safety actions it recommends.

Petition:
We, the undersigned, find that current government limits do not protect the public from adverse health effects from electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emanating from devices such as power lines, cell phones and wireless internet devices and their associated antenna sites, TV and FM broadcast towers and radar.

Most of the existing limits on this form of radiation are 1 to 4 thousand times too lenient to prudently protect humans from adverse health effects ranging from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, reproduction problems, sleep reduction, learning, memory, slowed ability of the body to repair damage, interference with immune function, cancer and electrohypersensitivity.

Based upon the scientific evidence set forth in The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) and a large body of additional research, we recommend that the following limits of electromagnetic radiation be set to not exceed:

I. Extremely-low frequency (ELF). Power Lines, appliances, interior electric wiring and other ELF-radiating devices:

A. Homes, schools and places where children spend large amounts of time:
1 milligauss *(1mG) for new construction; 1 milligauss (1mG) for all existing occupied space retrofitted over time.

B. All other construction: 2 milligauss (2mG).

* A milligauss is a measure of ELF field strength used to describe magnetic fields from appliances, power lines, interior electrical wiring,etc. A milligauss, abbreviated, is mG. Just as the power density of high frequency RF fields can be described in µW/cm2 or the corresponding electrical field in V/m, the parameter most easily measured for ELF is the magnetic field.

II. Long-term (cumulative) Radiofrequency Radiation*(RF)

A. Outdoor Pulsed- such as cell phone antennas, radar, TV and FM broadcast antennas, wireless internet antennas: one tenth of a microwatt per centimeter squared or 0.614 volts per meter. * (0.1 µW/cm2 or 0.614 V/m)

* Radiofrequency radiation (RF) power density is measured in microwatts per centimeter squared or volts per metmer and abbreviated (µW/cm2)or (V/m).

Radiofrequency Radiation is used when talking about emissions from broadcast, radar and wireless facilities, and when describing ambient RF in the environment. In the United States and Canada, for example, the amount of allowable RF near a cell tower is one thousand microwatts per centimeter squared (1000 µW/cm2) for some cell phone frequencies.

B. Indoor Radiofrequency Radiation (RF) such as cell phones, wireless internet equipment and the radiation that permeates buildings from outdoor sources. One hundredth of a microwatt per centimeter squared or 0.194 volts per meter (0.01 µW/cm2 or 0.194 V/m). Typically, RF power density from higher frequency outdoor sources such as UHF television or cell phone antenna base stations drops by a factor of ten when it permeates buildings. Lower frequency signals such as lower channel VHF TV and FM are not as severely attenuated as the higher frequencies.

Future research may demonstrate that these recommended levels are not protective enough; therefore, public policy makers should remain open to lowering them as the scientific evidence accumulates.

Statement of support from the European Environmental Agency:

Radiation risk from everyday devices assessed, 17 Sep 2007 : www.eea.europa.eu/highlights

A new report raising concerns about the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on human health calls for tougher safety standards to regulate radiation from mobile phones, power lines and many other sources of exposure in daily life. The "BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-Based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) was compiled by the BioInitiative Working Group, an international group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals. The EEA has contributed to this new report with a chapter drawn from the EEA study, "Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000"

The EEA study reviews the histories of a selection of public and environmental hazards, such as asbestos, benzene and PCBs, from the first scientifically based early warnings about potential harm, to subsequent precautionary and preventive measures. Cases on tobacco smoking and lead in petrol are forthcoming.

Although the EEA does not have specific expertise in EMF, the case studies of public hazards analyzed in the publication show that harmful exposures can be widespread before there is evidence of harm from long-term exposures, and biological understanding of how that harm is caused.

"There are many examples of the failure to use the precautionary principle in the past, which have resulted in serious and often irreversible damage to health and environments. Appropriate, precautionary and proportionate actions taken now to avoid plausible and potentially serious threats to health from EMF are likely to be seen as prudent and wise from future perspectives. We must remember that precaution is one of the principles of EU environmental policy," says Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA.

Current evidence, although limited, is strong enough to question the scientific basis for the present EMR exposure limits, according to the BioInitiative

-------------------------------------------

Link to this website: http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/AppelCallFrance.php#1